Vaping popularity

Public Health England has previously said e-cigarettes are 95% less harmful to health than tobacco cigarettes.

Its report, entitled E-cigarettes: an evidence update, concluded that vaping can help smokers quit.

‘This report has shown conclusively that the use of e-cigarettes has the potential to further reduce levels of smoking and save people from the many deadly diseases that are caused by tobacco, such as mouth cancer’, Dr Nigel Carter OBE, chief executive of the Oral Health Foundation, said at the time.

‘Smoking is the cause of many serious oral health problems including worsening gum disease, which is one of the most common causes of caries in UK adults.

‘It is also responsible for the majority of mouth cancers and is the direct cause of thousands of deaths every year.

‘There has been a major trend recently towards the use of e-cigarettes, and they are now the number one quitting aid used by smokers.

‘Getting smokers to use safer forms of nicotine such as these can be highly effective in helping people to quit and something that we fully support.’